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This one comes from a 5min blitz game of mine

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Both pawns ( b2 and e3) are under attack but white is way ahead in development and has very actively placed pieces. What would you play?

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Nice one. It shows how things can go very wrong if you don't develop :)


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Thanks

Yeah, he actually traded one of his only developed pieces by Nbd7-f6-g4-xe3 just to give me an open f file. By the way Phobetor this came from a phillidor's defence

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armis wrote:
By the way Phobetor this came from a phillidor's defence


Hehe, is that a threat? :wink:

Giving you doubled pawns does look good, but he had to worry about his development too. If he also had that in order (if he didn't get mated) he would have had an advantage with your doubled pawn. But he didn't, so shame on him! :)


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Phobetor wrote:
Hehe, is that a threat? :wink:

:D

Sort of encouraging you to take up something more active for your 1.d4 1. ...d6 2.e4 move order :wink: . Black has to play accurately in the opening and still gets a passive position in the Phill. It just seemed to me like black is a sitting duck in the phillidor, I think someone already said that in this forum :roll:
Although I am not sure about exd lines, those might be different

That's why chess is so interesting! His knight manouvere just seemed conceptually wrong to me so I didn't even bother looking at attacks on my pawns :rambo: and yet a blitz game, so if you are the one attacking that's good, very very good

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armis wrote:
Sort of encouraging you to take up something more active for your 1.d4 1. ...d6 2.e4 move order :wink:


I'm open for suggesions! :) :wink:


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I am sure you are :) but it's hard to suggest something except the modern or the pirc :roll:

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cool little trick and i did a similar one earlier.

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Doesn't Nxf7 win black a piece? Or are we just looking at it from a blitz standpoint?


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Notice the bishop on e7 is hanging

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lol I see what happened. I started analyzing the second answer ;), you know, the one where the queen had switched positions.


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Post Re: a tactic
Very nice. You must be proud! What's your rating? Here is one from a game of myen, it accured from a french defence.
Can you workout the entire combination? It's Black to move and win!


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Rxg2+! Kh1 (Kxg7 Qxh4) Qxh4 Nxh4 Rxf2+ Kg8 Rg2++ Kh1 Rxe2+ Rf3 Bxf3#
Not too hard to find once you said 'combination' which made me look for sacs. The poorly defended white queen is the reason for the success for the black attack.


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There is an even prettier line

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Awesome finish!

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